Works of Randall Munroe
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2016 9:02 pm
This trained physicist, who worked briefly as a robotics consultant with NASA is now author of a pretty fantastic geeky web comic. Some of the higher science, math. logic or engineering context that gets invoked might be mystifying to the uninitiated or with insufficient geek cred; however, it's all very clever and funny.
http://www.xkcd.org
(pressing the "random" button to bring up random entries from the past is yet another fun way to waste time on the interwebs)
Just yesterday I picked up a copy of his books "Thing Explainer" and "What If?" at the local bookstore. The former (published just over a month ago) explains complicated things like Sky Boat Pushers (jet engines) with diagrams captioned with entries using simple words (the thousand - or rather "ten hundred" most commonly used words, which doesn't include the word "thousand.") while the older, latter book is a collection of his serious answers to often weird hypothetical questions posed by readers.
http://www.xkcd.org
(pressing the "random" button to bring up random entries from the past is yet another fun way to waste time on the interwebs)
Just yesterday I picked up a copy of his books "Thing Explainer" and "What If?" at the local bookstore. The former (published just over a month ago) explains complicated things like Sky Boat Pushers (jet engines) with diagrams captioned with entries using simple words (the thousand - or rather "ten hundred" most commonly used words, which doesn't include the word "thousand.") while the older, latter book is a collection of his serious answers to often weird hypothetical questions posed by readers.
